WILKINS, Vaughan

[304] pp.

Jonathan Cape

1955

7 7/8″ x 5 3/8″

Valley Beyond Time tells of the fortunes of the Senator from Texas who first saw Cibola in his long-distant youth and made it the object of his life’s search. It tells, too, of the small boy who pushed across the frontier between the worlds; and of the embittered girl – duke’s daughter, policewoman, chaffeuse-lady-maid – who went leaping gladly to adventure through the gateway of time. It recounts, as well, the repercussions of these events upon a retired judge at a Welsh seaside resort, a priest, a grocer’s daughter, a super-glossy, super-calculating American beauty, and the most celebrated compiler of crosswords in England.